Business Development

San Francisco
Full-time
Visa Sponsorship

About the role

Who We Are

Roboflow is building the visual cortex for AGI.

Every day, millions of developers and half of the Fortune 100 use Roboflow to count cells to accelerate cancer research, improve construction site safety, digitize floor plans, preserve coral reef populations, guide drone flight, and much more.

We have built the tools, community, and resources needed to make the world programmable with artificial intelligence. We're supported by great customers and investors, having raised over $100 million from Google Ventures, Craft Ventures, Sam Altman, Lachy Groom, Y Combinator, and more.

Roboflow Labs is our applied research unit. We train our own open models (RF-DETR). We build our own benchmarks grounded in real enterprise use cases (RF100-VL). And we partner with frontier labs to deliver the training data they need to advance the capabilities that drive the most value back to our customers.

Behind all of it is a global network of millions of Roboflow developers who have annotated billions of images and videos to date, as well as a proven enterprise business that is exploding as AI traverses the physical economy.

What You'll Do

As the Business Development lead at Roboflow Labs, you'll build our relationships with the frontier labs. Our stakeholders are research scientists, human-data teams, and technical executives. You'll build and run the motion that targets across all three.

  • Build and own the pipeline of frontier lab accounts.

  • Run the full cycle: sourcing and outreach, discovery with researchers and data-partnerships teams, sample packets and evaluations, pricing and proposals, negotiation with procurement and legal, and close.

  • Stand up the systems for a repeatable motion: CRM, pipeline reviews, forecasting, and the account plans that turn a first purchase into a durable relationship

  • Represent Labs at industry events and online.

Who You Are

You are a technical seller ready to hit the pavement in the heart of the AI boom. You have high agency and a bias toward action.

  • Sufficiently fluent enough in frontier models to hold a credible discovery conversation with a researcher.

  • Skilled at multi-threaded deals: research champions, budget owners, procurement, legal, and executives, sometimes all in one account

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

  • Nice to have: an existing network at frontier labs, familiarity with computer vision or robotics, prior sales experience, a track record of owning and beating a number

Where You'll Work

Roboflow is a fully distributed company with hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Singapore, and Brazil. Roboflow Labs works in person in San Francisco. We host full company retreats twice per year.

What You'll Receive

The target compensation for this role is $80,000 – $160,000 base salary commensurate with experience as well as equity in the company. Total cash comp is expected to scale significantly with growth of Roboflow Labs.

In addition, we offer generous perks and benefits. Below are some of the highlights:

  • Generous stipends covering travel, productivity, tools, meals, and office.

  • Up to 100% of your health insurance costs covered.

  • Unlimited PTO - with an annual 2 week minimum.

  • 12 weeks parental leave

Not sure if this is you?

We want a diverse, global team with a broad range of experience and perspectives. We carefully consider every application and will either move forward with you, find another team that might be a better fit, keep in touch for future opportunities, or thank you for your time.

Learn More About Us

At Roboflow, we believe great ideas come from everywhere, and everyone. We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

About Roboflow

🖼️ Give your software the sense of sight.

Other roles at Roboflow

Interested?

Let me introduce you to the founders.

Skip the process

Refer someone

Know someone great for this role?

Share your link. If they get hired through Standout, you get $3,000.

Job details

Location

San Francisco

Experience

0+ years

Company

NameRoboflow
IndustryEngineering, Product and Design
Team Size100

Funding

Total raised

$99.7M

Last stage

Series B

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Joseph Nelson

Joseph Nelson

Co-Founder & CEO

LinkedIn
Brad Dwyer

Brad Dwyer

Co-Founder & CTO

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.